Issue VI, Volume X : July 2019

Norbert Krapf - Poetry

Norbert Krapf, Indiana Poet Laureate 2008-10 and winner of the Glick Indiana Author Award (regional) 2014, is the author ofeleven poetry collections, including Catholic Boy Blues: A Poet’s Journal of Healing (2014), American Dreams: Reveries and Revisitations (2013), and Songs in Sepia and Black and White, and the retrospective Bloodroot: Indiana Poems. He has released a poetry and jazz CD with Monika Herzig, Imagine (2007) and collaborates with Indiana bluesman Gordon Bonham. As IPL, he promoted collaborations and the reunion of poetry and song. He was a Creative Renewal Fellow 2011-12 with the Arts Council of Indianapolis with a project of combining poetry and blues. He lives with his family in Indianapolis. For more info, including audio and video files, book descriptions, and photos, visit here.